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'''Read [[:Category:Features|the latest features]].''' <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> '''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews of books about to be published]].{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}

|isbn=17886380260008517061|title=Where the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)Death in a Lonely Place|author=M J LeeStig Abell

|summary=It was easy to assume that the death of the young Chinese girl Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicideLittle Sky. Her throat was cut, there was There’s perhaps a lot of blood and the knife was on little uncertainty about the floor at the side future of the bedhis life with his vet girlfriend, She was due to be deported that day. But... how did the knife get into the secure centre Livia and why was the girl's room the only one which was unlocked? DI Thomas Ridpath, the coroner's officerher daughter Diana, is sent to investigate and he quickly becomes suspicious, There's a snag though: the inquest is due to open as moving in together would mean a couple lot of days' time, the girl's parents are coming over from China compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and they want relaxing life to take their daughter's body home move in with them. Ridpath has just five days Livia or does Livia move to solve the case. The coroner Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is disinclined to delay the inquest: future she wants for herself and her, it's about giving closure to daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the parentsback burner.

|isbn=14711660231786482126|title=Burnt Island The Janus Stone (Ben KittoDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Kate RhodesElly Griffiths

|summary=The 5th of November Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was D I Ben Kittogoing to hold seventy-five 's thirtyluxury' apartments -fifth birthday and when they discovered the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrations, but it would be marred this year by the discovery bones of Professor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfirechild beneath a doorway. He'd obviously been alive when he There was put on the fire and can only have died no skull. Was this a terrible deathritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The body was first discovered by Jimmy CurwenIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, better known on St Agnes that she is pregnant with his child as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is the welfare a result of the birds he looks afterone night they spent together some three months ago. His instinct Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to cover Rogan's body and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with the result that he's the prime suspectsudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Elliot Reed0008551324|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the story police where the body of a young boy, William Tyce, missing person is buried and who is being raised by his uncle after the was responsible for her death of his mother and his father's abandonment. HoweverThis person, he promises, is someone big and it isn't told in will be worth the usual narrative waypolice doing what he wants. Instead, And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the book is made up remainder of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations his sentence and emotionsto get an early parole date. It runs alphabeticallyNot much to ask, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. is it? As I began to read I did find myself thinking The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'what on earth?!t think so and she' but I soon grew used s even prepared to do the style, other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and was instead caught up in Williamanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's storyhappening.|isbn=1911545418

|authorisbn=Will Dean 0008405026|title=Black River A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns It's sixteen years since nine- year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and this third book in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into investigation ground to a halt. Now, her personal lifemother, returning Helena, and her to father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the isolated town positioning of Gavrik the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and into her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a desperate search for her missing best friendcomplex double murder. With Kerrigan is convinced that the Midsommar sun blocked out by the dark pines of the forestexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Tuva fights to save her friendUna Burt) are less convinced. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116

|isbn=17824074800571379877|title=Bird Love: The Family Life of BirdsKellerby Code|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike WebsterJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary=I was Edward Jevons is a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love'working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert' on s a couple of on-line booksellers: ''exploring the sex life of birds'' it saidtheatre director. I very nearly passed over the bookHe's also self-obsessed, but a closer examination suggested that the book is about the ''family life'' of birdsdemanding, which is rather differenthandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. If the book was confined to the sex life of birds, you would be missing an opportunity to understand Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how birds live day-he feels to-day, bring up their families and cope in the wildRobert. Not only Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that, you have missed a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the treat two of so many beautiful illustrations about them kissing in a wide variety of birds which run through this book from the first page to the lastdark passageway.

|author=Camilla BruceJo Callaghan|title=You Let Me InLeave No Trace

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= EccentricWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been missing for very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a year potential serial killer and has been pronounced legally dead by her lawyersa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Her Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will instructs her niece Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and nephew their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to enter her home be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and find a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the key group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to their inheritance end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an old manuscript left in her office: eerily similar event that will impact the last story shethree friends. This time, it'll ever tells their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1787633179

|authorisbn=Judith Eagle0241636604|title=The Pear AffairTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Set If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the 1960's, this pin-stripe suit and his background is a mystery adventure storythe East End, all about a little girl called Nell and her quest to find her nannywhere he was familiar with violence, Perrine (Pear) who left her very suddenly poverty and then, after keeping in touch regularly by post, disappeared completely from her life, leaving Nell bereftinjustice. There's everything in this story, with underground tunnels as was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the playground London School of gangs Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of childrenus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, to travel and detective workessentially, a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakeriescard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, mysterious figures following Nell around, and this turned into permanent employment as a set of truly dreadful parents!|isbn=0571346855trader.

|isbn=B083NMCSZX1035021803|title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Rachel LynchC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Ella Watson It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was in the wrong place at reason why Freya had not been back to the wrong timevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. She was out running Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the park when man or pursue the profession she was randomly attacked and stabbed to deathloved. Her husbandAfter the split, Thomasshe worked in a cafe, met and childrenmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, Jordan who was murdered) and Millie were devastated Freya and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that a decent, middle-class woman should be Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the victim shape of knife crimethings to come. Despite being '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a golfing partner few decades of Thomas Jordan he declined technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to distance himself me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the case possibilities and told DI Kelly Porter that he would be taking a great deal of interest in how the case was handledprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. He wasn't anywhere near as interested when I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a second woman was stabbed to death luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a few hours laterterrorist group. Keira Bradley lived Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the Beacon estate and Ormond's view seemed residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be that anyone living there should expect this sort cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of thing her room to happentry to capture what's happened through her photography. He could hardly bring himself Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to mention Keira's namesee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=05713423531529153298|title=Rules for Perfect MurdersThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Peter SwansonJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was the co-owner It's 1979 and manager of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in BostonMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. The store specialises in crime novels(A woman? I mean, but Mal has given up reading crimehonestly... ) His lifeShe's been pretty chaotic of late: Itnot what's five years since his wife, Claire Mallory, died and heworrying Miv's never really got over itfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. She was driving whilst inebriatedWell, having just they've been murdered, but to see the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affairhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. His interest in crime fiction comes back when heMiv's upset because she's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulveyoverheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. SheWhen you's interested in re from Yorkshire, Down South is a blog post he wrote a few years ago: frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She' My Eight Perfect Murders's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=17868971481398524085|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever (Harry McCoy)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Alan ParksNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March Charlotte Salter was on his way to London with fellow band members Tomexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Scottsons Niall, Barry Paul and JamieOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. HeShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'd had to get his s father to sign , Duncan Ackerley, in the contract for The Beatkickers, as Bobby wasn't old enoughriver. And his father It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had been reluctant - murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeship, for t stand the regular money. By July 1973 Bobby is back in Glasgowguilt. The Beatkickers didn't survive and March is on his own, Salter children are not convinced but hardly thriving. Therethere's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhile, the police are consumed by the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellylittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)1035906708|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Curses. They're there throughout tales We tend to think of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do thisMaria Callas as Greek, or not but she was born to be able to do that. Children can be cursedGreek parents in Manhattan, as can princesses on the verge of marryingNew York, in December 1923 and older people tooonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. It seems in a way there Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's no escaping to make itmore manageable in the States. Which is why When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the theme Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of this book of short stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, that demonised placeher preference for her elder sister, and that other bewitched personJackie. We'd be very wrong.|isbn=1789091500

|author=Sara HollandChristopher Edge|title=HavenfallBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary= Maddie Morrow is supposed to spending ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the summer with her Grandma Ellenanswering beat in my heart. But after '' Rosevear, a visit to remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother in prisonbefore her, Maddie wants nothing more than is one of the seven who swim out to go survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to Havenfall to see her uncleend the wrecking, Marcus. Itthey capture the island's the only place she feels truly at home. Maddieleader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, understandably, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is not keen on Maddie spending time secretive and with only coordinates to guide her mother's , she sets off in search of a family - because secret that lies buried deep in the crime Maddiesea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's mum is languishing on death row territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for committing is the murder Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of Maddieother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We's brotherll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence.So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1547603798 B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Baye HartshorneA G Slatter|title=Ghosted: The Treason House TrilogyBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45

|summary='Julia Crawley has lost her job on 'There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'Celebrity' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar' magazine s, a family of witches who protect the town and so the wider world from the Darklands. Though she decides has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to cut be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her losses training as a steward revolved around letters and return home to administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the village of Monmouth Cove on Briar Witch, the Jersey Shoretown's leader, hoping to return to and Ellie takes her place beside her harder hitting journalistic roots via local news. She'll be staying As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her grandmother - at the heart of a woman always ready to help younger relatives in need maelstrom of a handchaos. There's only Reeling from one problem with that: creepy Uncle Dexfamily secret to another, Ellie must decide who doesnto trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches't always keep his hands legacy, everything they have sacrificed to himselfsurvive, is under threat.|isbn= B0829CP5BM1803364548}}

|isbn=06486848061529900360|title=Clara Colby: The International SuffragistGhost Orchid|author=John HollidayJonathan Kellerman

|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=The path of Clara Dorothy BewickIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's life fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was probably determined when her family emigrated reluctant to the USAask for his help on difficult cases. At the time she was just threeHis assertions that there were only open-yearsand-old but because of some childhood ailment, she wasnshut cases which didn't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothersneed the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. InsteadFinally, it was Robin, she remained with her grandparentsDelaware's partner, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both in and out of schoolnudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the only child in the household and her childhood was gloriousman she loved needed. By contrastThe next case did look simple, her family had become pioneer farmers though. Two lovers were murdered in the mid-west swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the United States and life was hard, as Clara was heir to find out when she an Italian shoe empire and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was is married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children to an extremely rich man and died in childbirth it's not long after Clara arrivedthe Italian. As But which of them was the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.primary target?

|authorisbn=Kathleen Boucher and Sara Chadwick1529395224|title=Nine Ways to Empower TweensLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''9 Ways t want to Empower Tweensfollow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father'' is s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a self-help book vet and was convinced this was the job for tweenshim. Before long, setting out to show them vital #lifeskillshe was at Liverpool University. Don It hadn't groan! I know there is - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults toochild. If anything, but there is he'd wanted to be a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens tooprofessional footballer. |isbn= 0228818826

|authorisbn= Katie Fforde0861541774|title= A Springtime AffairNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4|genre= Women's FictionCrime|summary= IDCI Domenic Jejeune've wanted s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to read author Katie Fforde for ages and this meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was pretty much exactly what I involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was expecting facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and friendshipsGhurka. This provided two romances for the price Initially, he faced a charge of one, manslaughter but it was actually evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the family element death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as opposed to the romance that I really enjoyedany interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all. |isbn=1780897561

|isbnauthor=1838593187Alexander McCall Smith|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria ThompsonThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Tilly The Perfect Passion Company is exciteda dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. She's just Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come dashing out of and look after the classroombusiness, pigtails flapping behind her and as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a big grin on her facewhile. Dad's come to collect her Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and her brother and he ''has'' so jumps at the chance to try come home to guess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guessEdinburgh. Dad wants And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to know how school wasan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but ''obviously'' that's not importantwith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than Katie has no experience in running a scrap ''book''?) Wellbusiness, actuallyor in match-making, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things but Ness has full confidence in her pocketabilities, but thatand there's not what she wants Dad always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to guess.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn= Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed0811771741|title= Yes No Maybe So InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 4|genre= TeensCrafts|summary= Melissa Leapman's ''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going InstaKnits for, donBaby't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for gives us a special election. When his mother encourages him collection of knits from toys to go canvassing, he can't think of anything worseblankets. However, Jaime has always wanted to Some will be a politician and decides there is no time like quick knits - others are of the present to conquer his fear 'long, cosy afternoons in front of speaking to the publicfire' variety. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents The projects are going through a separation, she has zero plans for divided by the summer time they'll take to help take her mind off things and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy hercomplete - less than five hours, her parents offer five to buy her a car if she agrees ten hours, ten to go canvassingtwenty hours and more than twenty hours. The pair could possibly be All the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of them really want to be thereprojects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=1471184668's me being picky.

|author=Gregg HurwitzDean Koontz|title=Into The FireBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary= Grant Merriweather Benny is having a forensic accountantterrifically bad day. Or ratherHe loses his job, washe loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. He Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crashinside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, his friend pleading with Benny is the medics very last person to keep him alivedeserve all this bad luck. He was needed alive just long enough is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to give up help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a namegood person. His cousinSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, Maxand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=07181855011662500491

|isbnauthor=1529124395Adam Stower|title=When You See Me|author=Lisa GardnerMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=For Janet Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and Chuckfriendly cat, it was a hiking break in the Appalachians in Georgia one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and pure chance that Chuck went off , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the beaten track to find a sticktwo. What But he found was 's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was hyperactive sticky rabbit called inBun, along with Sergeant D D Warren. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but and the catflap they also called on both use can chuck them out, not into the services of Keith Edgarregular back garden, but into a computer analyst, world of frightening adventure and Flora Dane who brought something unique to the tablewhiffs. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the notorious killerThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to do with the current discoveries then what Flora had be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to say could be invaluable.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1529009677B0C47LV1PC|title=A Window BreaksFragility|author=C M EwanMosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. ItCan you make a ''s not just the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his fatherYo birthing person's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drive. Not only joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did he kill himself when , would it land? The catch is that the car rammed into a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connoranswer for both could well be... Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of shame and guilt. Rachel is broken, but she wants to forgive Michaelno. To give some space, Tom ''Fragility''s moved out is set as the city of the family homePortland, Oregon, but stresses cautiously begins to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=02419851531529431735|title=The House on the LakeWinter Visitor|author=Nuala EllwoodJames Henry|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know that something It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has gone wrong - badly wrong come about because he's had a letter from his ex- wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when the woman who was alone in the house Hopkins is taken away by the policeabducted, but it's going stripped to his underwear and sent to be a while before we learn exactly what has happenedwatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Struan Murray Alex Bell and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Tim McDonagh|title=Orphans The Glorious Race of the TideMagical Beasts|rating=54

|summary= In Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the last city on Earthwondrous library we start by visiting with him, anyone can be and in the vessel of The Enemy - evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the god who drowned family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the world titular race, a globe- who has come trotting adventure where all entrants have to wreak havoc on navigate the last of humanity. When a mysterious boy is pulled from world in the corpse company of a whale, magical beast. This has made the citizens immediately believe him race anathema to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, pair – but when a girl inventor. As bad incident at the ruthless Inquisition prepares eatery leads to execute the boya confession from gran, Ellie must prove that Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepestmost hates, darkest secrets..with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=02413844350571382231